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Palisades Park Closure Extended

Los Angeles County COVID-19 cases over 2,000 By Sam Catanzaro The City of Santa Monica has extended the closure of Palisades Park as the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) countywide surpasses […]

Santa Monica Closes Beach Parking Lots

Updated March 24, 2020 3:45 p.m. City advises avoiding beach, Palisades Park, beach bike path By Sam Catanzaro Following a weekend that saw a large number of beachgoers amidst a statewide stay at home order, […]

City Council Adopts Nearly $1 Billion Climate Action Plan

Santa Monica aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050 By Sam Catanzaro Earlier this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that global atmospheric carbon reached 415 parts per million, surpassing levels not seen in […]

Beyond the Index: The Pirates of Silicon Beach

By Zoë Muntaner   “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor” – Franklin D. Roosevelt.   In his 2002 classic “The Rise of the Creative Class,” Carnegie Mellon professor Richard Florida argued that “creative […]